In the red carpet you won't see the bloodstains - Ryou & Bakura copic art
IT’S FINALLY DONE!
I’m so happy with the result and so happy to finally doing this drawing that it’s been in my head for years already.
The drawing itself is highly inspired by the song A Strange Thing to Say by Sopor Aeternus so it’d be great to listen to it while looking at the drawing ehehehe.
This was part of the Mystery Letter~
And here’s the process pictures, I hope you like it!
In the red carpet you won't see the bloodstains - Ryou & Bakura copic art
IT’S FINALLY DONE!
I’m so happy with the result and so happy to finally doing this drawing that it’s been in my head for years already.
The drawing itself is highly inspired by the song A Strange Thing to Say by Sopor Aeternus so it’d be great to listen to it while looking at the drawing ehehehe.
This was part of the Mystery Letter~
And here’s the process pictures, I hope you like it!
Unidos en la Gloria y en la Muerte - Guilty Gear II Overture
I'm not a big fan of the Overture game, but I'd be lying if I said it doesn't have some of the coolest ideas (starting with Valentine). So, I wanted to give it a drawing.
This piece is based on the sculpture Unidos en la Gloria y en la Muerte by Rebeca Matte
I'll copy-paste what I wrote on my Patreon if you want to read some of the thoughts and the drawing process. I really had a lot of fun doing this piece!!!!
Ky and Sin are father and son. Sin is the result of the forbidden love between a human and a gear (basically biological weapons), which caused an immense distress in Ky, for what he kept his wife Dizzy and Sin a secret in order to protect them. Ky always fought to be righteous and questioned his own judgement for the wellbeing of others. He knew what he was doing was against everything, and more when he became the third king of Illyria and all eyes were on him; to which he only was a mere puppet of the Conclave. Ashamed, Ky had to take the hard decision to give his son to Sol, hoping he would take care of him, better than he could. Ky never faced Sin, not after what he had done to him. In the end, Ky was a prisoner of his weak heart.
On the other hand, Sin grew resentful of Ky. He never understood why Ky rejected him so much, and why he fought so hard for unknown people but never cared enough for his own family. His resentment was such that he only considered Sol his father, as he confessed it to Ky. Despite all, Sin still cared for him, because he knew there was a reason why Dizzy, his mother, still considered Ky a valuable family member, so he stood close to him so Ky could prove his own worth as a father.
I don't mean to say Ky is Daedalus and Sin is Icarus, but more about how the story can be interpreted in how a father's decision can lead to a son's resentment and trauma. Daedalus became a prisoner due to his actions, Icarus was simply dragged by it. So, even if Sin could fit perfectly in Icarus' role, it's more about how Ky sees Sin suffering the consequences of his actions and yet fighting to become someone on his own, far from what was his mistakes. Ky loves Sin, but he knew that he was uncapable of being a good father as the circumstances were implied, so in order to free his son from his cell he had to let him go.
"Unidos en la gloria y en la muerte" (united in glory and death) from Rebecca Matte is a sculpture that's been with me my whole life. Anytime I visited my grandma, my mother and I had to walk in front of the Bellas Artes Museum, where the statue is. She would tell me the story about Daedalus and Icarus, and I remember myself finding strange why Icarus had to be prisoner with his father. But even if I find it still unfair for Icarus, and now that I continue to walk in front of the same statue decades later, I can empathize with Daedalus and how he tried to save both of them for the mistake he committed. Seeing now Daedalus' expression, how sad and frustrated he looks, explains how much he regretted it.
And that's what I find so fascinating in Ky and Sin's story. They're not conventionally father and son, even when Sin finally recognizes Ky as his father, and eventually moves together, Sin already has his own freedom that could only gain when Ky let him go. And their relationship is slowly growing stronger, yay!
Also there's this theme in Guilty Gear Xrd Sign titled Icarus that I highly recommend to listen, it's a nice song and I always think about Sin for no reason, idk Sin as Icarus is so appealing to me, I have so many ideas with this aaaaaaaa.
I spotted this post offhandedly and didnt read it in full at first but I immediately recognized this pose and for a second it didnt register who it was and then i audibly in my quiet dark room went "Is that- With OVERTURE KY?!?!? PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK"
Overture Ky is such a strange design critter in the long line of Ky designs and yet I absolutely love it for being the outlier. Its MADE for drawings like this. With heavy and layered themes both from the artists perspective and from the actual pose and work in itself.
Also Sin as Icarus is so on point. I think the reason they overlap so well is because Icarus is mainly characterized by his zealotry born of his youth; he flies close to the sun because he feels the breath of fresh life in the air closest to the clouds. And if he drowns, he delights in the taste of the crisp sea spray and the infinity of the shoreline. Sin is mainly depicted being very bright and bubbly and that same kinda hubristic sentimentality. I think thats why I personally adore Overture's story and Sin in it so much.
Its written like the era it came out in, and with a budget well below what it was promised, but the inklings of Sin's hubris still comes through. Hes cocky, arrogant, and disregards Sol's teachings not out of ignorance but out of the pain he holds deep in his heart from being abandoned by Ky. Sin is noted to be easily brainwashed and thats because his heart- like Ky's- is passionate and open but hurt deeply by lack of control and power. Sin is implied to feel that a lot of his problems would be solved by having strength, by having control- by the gods he even hates his own dad *because of that belief.* And I feel like that also intertwines him intimately with Icarus. Icarus ignores his fathers warnings about the sea, and the sun, not because he hates his father, but because his heart was hurt by the years he spent locked away in the tower made to seal the answers of the labyrinth. Unable to taste the fresh sea air, and feel the warm sun on his back.
The thing I always ask myself about Icarus; would you be better then him? If you spent *years* of your young life only hearing about how the sunlight could burn you, how the sea could drown you; and then you go out and feel and see those things for yourself- would you resist the urge to fly high? To fly low? Would a death from the sun be that bad? Would drowning truly be that scary?
*Takes a long rip off a cigarette* Oh yeah... Im gonna be thinking about this fanart for weeks... Thank you so much for blessing my page with this.
Thoughts on alliumshipping(Yugi x dark magician)? Also you're art is gorgeous btw
Oh and what's your favorite flavor of dm? Mine is this one! 🖤 🤍 💙
Heyaaa!!
To be completely honesty I think Alliumshipping is really cute but I don't see much with what to work with, like all that comes to me is that both share that they miss Atem, so it'd be a bit weird to ship them romantically. And I also prefer to ship Yugi with his own monsters~ he has his own beautiful magician.
But if we talk about favorite DM, yes! That you is incredibly cool. I also love one of the original colors, idk why he looks super cute in that green skin + blonde hair ><💖
